Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Martin Seligman, Anxiety Disorder, B. F. Skinner

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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266-273: suppose that, after an animal has been classically conditioned to salivate to a tone, a flash of light, higher-order conditioning. Bf skinner: said you are training something to operate on how to get reinforcement in its environment, notion of operants, response-reinforcement bond is critical responses that get reinforced are more likely to occur, shaping. The way that you would train any animal using this technique to do almost anything. What target response do you want and what is the reinforcer. Schedules of reinforcement (generate high response rates: continuous reinforcement (cr) You wait after reinforcement is delivered before you: variable ratio (vr) start responding. On average, reinforce every nth correct response. Looking at a sequence and finding out the mean. Makes the response rate last a bit longer. Enormously high response rate: fixed interval (fi) Reinforce first correct response after a certain time has elapsed.